INDRANI SAT ON SHEENA’S FACE

MUMBAI: Indrani Mukerjea strangled her daughter Sheena Bora and "sat on her face", her driver and co-accused in murder alleged on Friday in a Mumbai court. She set her body on fire too, according to him.

"Indrani Madam sat on Sheena's face and said - here's your three-bedroom flat," driver Shyamvar Rai said during his questioning in the CBI court. Indrani Mukerjea and her husband Peter Mukerjea, former media owners, have been in jail since 2015 for the murder of Sheena Bora, Indrani's daughter by a previous marriage.

The 25-year-old was killed inside a car in 2012, allegedly by Indrani, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver. She was in a relationship with Rahul Mukerjea - Peter Mukerjea's son from an earlier marriage - when she was killed.

Indrani had claimed that Sheena Bora was in the US.

The crime surfaced three years later after the arrest of Indrani's driver Shyamvar Rai, who led the police to Sheena Bora's remains in jungles near Mumbai.

Indrani was arrested in August 2015. Three months later Peter Mukerjea was also arrested.

The driver claimed Indrani told him on skype that she wanted to kill both her daughter and her son Mikhail because "they are defaming me by calling me mother." Indrani had told the world that the two were her siblings.

Sheena Bora, she told her driver, had demanded a threebedroom flat in Mumbai's upscale Pali Hill, a car and a diamond ring to keep up the charade.